Added by Shatterstar on July 21, 2008
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What did you think of The Dark Knight?
So... first of all I'm never letting someone else buy a ticket again. Friend of mine was supposed to buy tickets online for the Saturday evening show, somehow managed to get tickets for the Sunday show, which we didn't learn until we were sitting in our seats 10 minutes before the Saturday show was supposed to start. Anyways... after the ticket buyer was sacked, a crazy 12 hour beach party, and Hancock later, I finally got to see Dark Knight.
My opinion:
Dark Knight surpassed Batman Begins, best comic book movie ever. Best action movie I've seen in a long long long time, its easily at the highest echelon of action movies i've ever seen. I saw Hancock to kill time earlier in the day and there's just no comparison. Spectacular pace despite being 2.5 hours it doesn't lag at all, just huge amazing visuals, unpredictable plot, and Heath Ledger WAS the Joker. Disturbing, funny, repugnant, chaotic, he was the perfect foil for Batman. Totally stole the movie although Two-Face was intense when he showed up.
This movie raises the bar way the hell up for any future comic movie. Any action movie too. Oscar? Sure. At least for Ledger. That performance was on par with Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter, DeNiro in Cape Fear, etc. Best movie I've seen this year by far. Chris Nolan deserves some form of recognition for what he's done here.
Dark Knight shows the difference that a quality director with respect for his audience, for the source material and pride in making the characters and actors look good rather than trying to show how clever they can be as a director. Its not about selling the soundtrack, slurpees, and action figures. Its just a damn good movie. My hope is that directors of talent take notice and feel eager to work on comic movies, producers get inspired to shoot comic movies for quality over making an easy buck off the name, and the comic companies themselves keep it going with the quality movies they're turning out. They don't need a mindless "fun summer popcorn" flick (this phrase makes me want to impale myself) to put butts in seats.
Added by Shatterstar on July 14, 2008
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What's the first comic you remember buying?
Still one of my favorite comics of all time
First comic I remember getting for myself was this one at a 7/11. I'm not sure if I used allowance money or lunch money or something but the art, action, cool looking characters sucked me in. I had absolutely no idea what was going on in this issue. The Reavers get slaughtered, the Hellions all die, Iceman apparently dies, Fitzroy shows up with a bunch of super sentinels & wupps the White Queen, Archangel is angsty and apparently has venetian blinds for wings, I had no idea what was going on with Jean Grey or Storm's powers. Colossus and Iceman I remembered from the original X-Men & Spider-Man cartoon series, were immediately my favorite characters. I probably read it a dozen times before I got another comic. I loved Portacio's art, he's still one of my favorite superhero artists.
I had a handful of books before this one that my cousin got for me- couple early issues of Darkhawk, Deathlok, Spider-Man, Ghost Rider. He turned me onto the idea of collecting comics like you do baseball cards, save them & make money off them when you're old... sounded right at the time...
Added by Shatterstar on July 12, 2008
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Do you listen to (or watch) any podcasts? If so, which ones? If not, why not?
I subscribe to the Onion's radio & video feed. Not really a podcast I guess. Other than that, I really don't have time to listen to podcasts on a regular basis. Once in a while I'll put one on that sounds interesting from Itunes on in the background but there's nothing out there that I MUST listen to/watch.
Added by Shatterstar on July 4, 2008
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Comic Book Movies 2008,
Batman
http://my.spill.com/profiles/blog/show?id=947994%3ABlogPost%3A355506"Apparently, Michael Bay wrote an unsolicited script for The Dark Knight
that was ultimately rejected by Warner Bros. Though this is the first
I’ve heard of it, I have the exclusive leaked images to back it up.
Here are some choice excerpts.
Cover page:
Page 1-3:
Page 28:
Page 71-72:
Page 112:
A part of me would really, really like to see this made."
Added by Shatterstar on July 2, 2008
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So this computer I assembled is like 10 months old. Should be running fantastically, other than kaspersky a/v & firewall there is nothing running on it at any given moment other than whatever internet browser I'm using or Team Fortress 2.
I don't know how savvy the comicvine populace is but I figured might as well post this in case anyone out there can help.
Specs:
-Motherboard: Abit IP35-E
-Video card: HIS Hightech Radeon x1950 Pro 512MB GDDR3 PCI-e
-PSU: OCZ Gamexstream 700W
-CPU: Intel Duo core 2 E6750 w/stock heatsink/fan & Arctic silver 5
-Memory: Patriot extreme performance 2x1 GB 6400 (4-4-4-12 2.2v)
-Pioneer DVD +/- R 18x
-Seagate Barracuda 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard-drive
-Coolermaster CM690 case w/ 3 stock 120mm CM fans and 2 Thermaltake 120mm fans
-USB wireless port
-Monitor: Samsung 226bw
-XP Pro SP2
Problems- Random BSODs IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL (the last STOP msg was 0x0000000A [0x000400A2, 0x00000002, 0x00000001, 0x80546AA8])
Vertical teal artifacts show up in internet browsers & some TF2 maps have artifacts problems too.
The case has been dusted twice in the last month, Catalyst drivers just got updated and that did nothing, haven't run memtest but I guess thats my next step. One thing I initially suspected was heat b/c it gets hot in the room the PC is in (a/c sucks here), though it crashed earlier today and all the temps looked fine - power supply was in the low 40sC, CPU was in the high 20s- low 30sC, system was somewhere in the mid to high 30s.
Maybe time to buy a UPS or a better CPU fan? Hardware-wise I'm baffled, stuff really shouldn't be failing already & I don't push it at all as far as overclocking or anything like that goes.
Things to do-
Run in safe mode & try to crash it- guess that means its a hardware issue if it does.
Run memtest.
???
Throw PC through window.
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